Oedipus Rex

Often in life humans tend to think that they control their own fate. In the play

Oedipus Rex, Sophocles can be seen as teaching a moral that fate is pre-determined

and that humans cannot escape their own destiny. Oedipus, Lauis, and Jocasta all

try to control their own fate, however, they find out that they cannot escape their destiny.

Lauis is one of the characters in Oedipus Rex that tries to control his fate. When

he asks a oracle at Delphi to tell him his prophecy and the oracle tells Lauis that he and

his wife Jocasta will have a child, however, the oracle also tells Lauis that he will die at

the hands of his son. Since Lauis is told this he decides to kill the child when it is

born. Once the child is born Lauis makes the baby's feet bound together and exposes it

on a lonely mountain where he thinks it will soon die. After Lauis does this he has no

more fear about getting killed by his own son. However, a shepherd would save the

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